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Using styles
23Lesson 1, InDesign CS4 Essential Skills
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Applying character styles
Character styles can be applied to individual words or characters. They are useful when applying
common formatting attributes such as bold and italic. Character styles are the foundation for
the nested styles that you applied to the event listings in the previous section. Here you will
apply a character style to individual words.
1 Double-click on page 2 in the Pages panel to display page 2 within the workspace.
2 Using the Zoom tool ( ), increase the magni cation so you can easily see the  rst
paragraph of text, which starts with the text
Your wheels.
3 Select the Type tool ( ) from the Tools panel and select the word wheels at the top of the
 rst paragraph. You can select the text either by clicking and dragging or by double-
clicking on it.
Double-clicking on a word selects the word, triple-clicking selects the line, and quadruple-clicking
(that’s four clicks) selects the paragraph.
4 Press the Character Styles button ( ) in the dock on the right side of the workspace to
open the Character Styles panel. Choose Italic from the Character Styles panel to apply
the Italic style to the selected word.
The Character style applies to a word rather than a whole paragraph.
Apply styles using Find/Change
Character Styles make it easy to automate the process of formatting text. In the current story,
you want every instance of the word wheels to be italicized. Finding each of them individually
would be very time-consuming, so let’s speed up the process a bit using the Find/Change
capabilities and character styles.
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